In the sweltering Oslo summer heat, something strange is happening. As the residents escape the heat, the dead escape their crypts. A lost love (Olga Damani). A perished mother (Bahar Pars). A still be-mourned grandchild (Dennis Østry Ruud). They all return to their family’s bewilderment, but sometimes it is best to let the dead rest…
Tag: International Cinema
Tótem
Sol (Naíma Sentíes) joins her aunts, Nuri (Montserrat Marañón) and Alejandra (Marisol Gasé), as they prepare to celebrate Tona (Mateo García Elizondo), her father, on his birthday. The ailing patriarch, young as he is, will probably not see another birthday, so the party also serves as a poignant farewell to the man. The children, however,…
Kneecap
Arló Ó Cairealláin (Michael Fassbender) teaches his two sons Irish in a rebuke against the encroaching British law that did not recognize the language and sought to squash it out. He disappears, becoming a bit of a folk hero in the process, leaving behind his wife Dolores (Simone Kirby) to raise Naoise (Móglaí Bap) and…
Touch
As the world is shutting down amid the spread of Covid-19, Kristófer (Egill Ólafsson) journeys from Iceland to England to reconnect with a woman he knew when he was younger. As a youth (Palmi Kormákur), he studied business at the London School of Economics. On a bit of a dare with his friends, he applies…
The Beast
1910, Paris. Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) and her husband, Georges (Martin Scali), run the premier doll factory in town. She reunites by chance with Louis (George MacKay), an old friend, and confesses to him her fear of suffering a great tragedy. Los Angeles, 2014. Gabrielle is housesitting for an architect in his luxury home. After an…
A Prince
Pierre-Joseph (Antoine Pirotte, voiced by Grégory Gadebois), a horticulture apprentice. Alberto (Vincent Barré, voiced by Mathieu Amalric), the master gardener. Adrien (Pierre Barray), the land owner. Françoise (Manon Schaap, voiced by Françoise Lebrun), his wife. Moïse (Bruno Martin), their first son, a hunter. Kutta (Chiman Dangi), their second son, an Indian prince. Together, they make…
Exhuma
Hwa-rim (Kim Go-eun) and her apprentice, Bong-gil (Lee Do-hyun), two skilled Korean shamans, are called to investigate a strange disease plaguing the newborn son of a wealthy Korean-American family. They trace the cause back to a vengeful ancestor who did not receive a burial appropriate to their class, so Park Ji-Yong (Kim Jae-cheol), the patriarch…
Evil Does Not Exist
Takumi (Hitoshi Omika) lives in peace with his young daughter, Hana (Ryo Nishikawa), in the rural village of Mizubiki, not far from Tokyo. News breaks that a company wants to convert some of the forests that the town relies on into a glamping resort so that the city folk can experience a taste of the…
Housekeeping for Beginners
A nuclear family has combusted and are now living in the fallout, carefully navigating around each other. Matriarch Dita (Anamaria Marinca) is left to raise Vanesa (Mia Mustafi) and Mia (Dzada Selim), the two children of her girlfriend, Suada (Alina Serban), who was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. Meanwhile, her husband, Toni (Vladimir Tintor), has…
The Marquee Topic 